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Number of offences
	2003		2004
	Findings of guilt	Immediate custody( 1)	Findings of guilt	Immediate custody( 1)
Avon and Somerset	2,666	167	2,692	145
Bedfordshire	1,072	72	1,028	65
Cambridgeshire	933	56	1,083	52
Cheshire	1,905	110	2,128	106
Cleveland	981	61	1,071	60
Cumbria	843	37	907	50
Derbyshire	1,617	168	1,874	143
Devon and Cornwall	2,667	121	2,560	120
Dorset	1,264	73	1,239	52
Durham	1,170	77	1,277	80
Essex	2,622	311	2,853	347
Gloucestershire	890	37	913	36
Greater Manchester	4,743	437	4,811	383
Hampshire	3,663	234	3,743	199
Hertfordshire	1,904	78	1,881	94
Humberside	1,445	150	1,623	112
Kent	2,811	179	3,010	155
Lancashire	2,652	146	2,706	125
Leicestershire	1,725	143	1,754	145
Lincolnshire	1,111	42	1,209	46
London, City of	235	4	169	5
Merseyside	2,687	215	2,849	261
Met Police	12,621	922	13,227	832
Norfolk	1,274	59	1,240	64
Northamptonshire	799	65	922	73
Northumbria	2,747	187	2,675	183
North Yorkshire	1,194	51	1,131	40
Nottinghamshire	1,644	149	1,669	111
South Yorkshire	2,089	125	2,224	140
Staffordshire(2)	1,733	141	1,733	124
Suffolk	1,213	66	1,332	89
Surrey	1,464	44	1,425	51
Sussex	2,430	120	2,368	104
Thames Valley	3,884	159	3,539	190
Warwickshire	918	33	845	23
West Mercia	1,797	100	1,689	103
West Midlands	5,233	420	5,584	423
West Yorkshire	3,720	260	3,897	276
Wiltshire	1,031	62	1,024	39
England	87,397	5,881	89,904	5,646
Dyfed Powys	995	46	986	6
Gwent	1,149	94	1,188	5
North Wales	1,326	76	1,349	6
South Wales	2,840	211	2,811	35
Wales	6,310	427	6,334	52
England and Wales	93,707	6,308	96,238	5,698
n/a = not available (1) Immediate custody includes sentences of Secure Training Order, Detention and Training Order, Young Offender Institution and Unsuspended sentence of imprisonment. (2) Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at detailed level and have been excluded from the table. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of drivers convicted of drink driving (a) received a fine, (b) received a jail sentence and (c) were banned from driving in the last year for which figures are available. [85897]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform is given in the table for 2004 (latest available). Data for 2005 will be available early in 2007.

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Findings of guilt at all courts and sentence and order imposed for the offences of ‘driving etc after consuming alcohol or taking drugs’( 1) , England and Wales, 2004
Number of offences
	Number	Percentage
Total findings of guilt	96,238	100
Sentence or order
Fine	66,433	69
Immediate custody(2)	6,059	6
Disqualification(3)	90,308	94
(1) Offences under Road Traffic Act 1988 s4(1) and (2), 5(1a) and (b), 6(4), 7(6), and s7A as added by Police Reform Act 2002 s56. (2) Immediate custody = detention and training order, young offender institution and unsuspended sentence of imprisonment. (3) Secondary disposal. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when these data are used.

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